Readers object to the National Park Service’s deletions at historic sites ordered by the Trump administration. Also: David ...

Experience U.S. history day by day through Google Earth as we map the events, battles, and breakthroughs that shaped the nation. From major turning points to forgotten moments, we follow the timeline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York Times columnist David Brooks, seen in Washington, D.C., in 2011. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images America’s so-called sane ...

President Donald Trump recently called U.S. museums “the last remaining segment of ”WOKE," singling out the Smithsonian as “OUT OF CONTROL” for focusing on “how horrible our Country is, how bad ...

Gonna shutdown like it’s 1995. The ongoing government shutdown became the second-longest in US history Wednesday, surpassing the 1995-96 lapse in federal funding as it dragged into day 22 with no end ...

A look at events and figures that shaped American history. Throughout U.S. history, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders faced colonialism and the exploitation of their land and resources as the U.S ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

The ongoing U.S. government shutdown has now become one of the longest in history, extending into its second month as of October 2025. This current impasse has surpassed several previous records and ...